Analysis of Moonrise
Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844 (Stratford, London) – 1889 (Dublin)
I awoke in the Midsummer not to call night, in the white and the walk of the morning:
The moon, dwindled and thinned to the fringe of a finger-nail held to the candle,
Or paring of paradisaical fruit, lovely in waning but lustreless,
Stepped from the stool, drew back from the barrow, of dark Maenefa the mountain;
A cusp still clasped him, a fluke yet fanged him, entangled him, not quite utterly.
This was the prized, the desirable sight, unsought, presented so easily,
Parted me leaf and leaf, divided me, eyelid and eyelid of slumber.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010011011110010011010 0110011011010111010 1101111001011 1101111010111010 0111101111010111100 110100100110101100 1011010101101110 |
Characters | 540 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 7 |
Letters per line (avg) | 60 |
Words per line (avg) | 14 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 212 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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